James P. Hogan Quotes
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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I find that I can't work and listen to radio – either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.
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Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be.
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To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.
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There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.
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There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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The irony, often tragic, is that by embracing the scarcity assumption, we create the very scarcities we fear. … We create scarcity by fearfully accepting it as law and by competing with others for resources.
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Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice.
